A friend of mine is joining in with this where you pledge not to buy any new clothes for a year, instead you repair, refashion or make from scratch your own clothes. I would love to join but I am so hopeless with making clothes. I can do very basic repairs and simple alterations but that is about it - I remember the trauma of taking a whole year at school to make an apron and then another year to make one skirt. But I am enjoying following what others are doing and I love seeing some of the refashions that people are doing with charity shop finds. I am hoping that I might be able to get the confidence to make something quite basic for myself.

I found Jen's blog via The 'Love What You Wear' Project. Jen is going one step further and is trying not to buy anything new for a year - lots of enjoyable posts on green living, upcycling, repurposing, crafting and recipes.

I found Team Pugh via Jen's blog and I now look forward to their daily blog posts on how they are managing with giving up shopping in supermarkets for a year. As well as updates on how they are coping, they also share recipes and other interesting tit-bits about their lives.

This is my favourite cookery blog - Ruth Clemens was the runner up in the first ever Great British Bake Off in 2010. Her blog is packed full of lots of lovely recipes - each one accompanied by great step by step instructions plus photographs.

3 comments:

A nice idea to share blogs on other topics Karen. I know the first three, although I found Jen before joining the TLWYW project. I'll be checking out the Charity Shop Chic. I'm sure it'll be right up my street. Thanks for sharing.Fi xx

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Hi - I'm Karen thanks for stopping by my blog and taking a peek. I'm a 50 something, Marillion obsessed, craft mad individual. Thankfully I have an understanding hubby who is also mad on Marillion and doesn't seem to mind me filling the house with all my crafting paraphenalia. I have recently quit working as a clerk to a local school's governing body and am now adjusting to being a full-time domestic goddess.
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